Search for dissertations about: "territories"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 82 swedish dissertations containing the word territories.
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1. Territories of Environmental Concern
Abstract : During recent decades, the "environment" has become established in many countries both as an important item on the political agenda, and as an area of concern for large sections of the public. However, "environmental concern" is often treated as homogeneous, with little regard being taken to the influence of actual physical conditions - such as degradation of the biosphere - individual's and group's differing belief systems, and the territorial aspects of environmental perceptions. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the Border : Syrian Policies towards Territories Lost
Abstract : This study furthers our understanding of an often ignored but important and central part of modern politics; the dynamic relationship between territory and state. The republic of Syria, carved out of a much larger territory during the post World War I re-mapping of the Middle East, constitutes the empirical focus. READ MORE
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3. Ecologies of Practices and Thinking
Abstract : How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist methodology which allows it to relate to the nonhuman as an active participant, rather than a passive object of inquiry. READ MORE
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4. Moments on a City Bus : Micro-sociology of Non-verbal Interaction in Urban Bus-riding
Abstract : This thesis seeks to contribute to research on social interaction in public (and semi-public) places in general, and research on non-verbal mundane interaction in these places in particular. By paying empirical attention to the non-verbal interaction that takes place in the context of riding a city bus – which is a contained and time-limited form of social activity – this thesis explores the theoretically rich source of information about mundane interaction that this specific social activity offers. READ MORE
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5. Urbanization as Socionatures' Reproduction: from Territories of Extraction
Abstract : Through an engagement with the strand of critical urban theory, this dissertation brings the reworkings of Henri Lefebvre’s notion of ‘planetary urbanisation’ into a new synthesis with further inputs from urban political ecology and feminism—towards developing an ecofeminist lens to urbanization. Guided by the hypothesis “urbanization has been historically sustained through the patriarchal domination of women and nature’s reproduction,” the thesis seeks to critically explore how urbanization processes have historically and multiscalarly recurrently transformed the spatial configurations of reproduction from territories of extraction. READ MORE
